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By Richard Valdmanis BOSTON, Jan 13 (Reuters) - Boutique mint-maker VerMints can keep its name, but its tins need to make clear the candies are not actualy made in the Green Mountain state, according to a settlement announced by Vermont's attorney general on Monday. Vermont sued VerMints in 2012, arguing that the company mislabeled its packaging as "Vermont's All Natural Mints" when the pastilles are actually produced in the Canadian province of Quebec. "Use of the term 'Vermont' has great economic value, and many businesses go to the expense of sourcing their ingredients and processing within the state in order to market their products as Vermont products," Vermont Attorney General William H. Sorrell said in a news release.

No. 6 Duke 91, Vermont 90: Rodney Hood made the decisive free throw with five seconds left as the Blue Devils survived a late four-point play to avoid a massive home upset at the hands of the pesky Catamounts. Playing a team that already had lost to Bryant and Wagner this season, Duke (5-1) led 90-86 with 10.4 seconds left, when Vermont's Candon Rusin nailed a deep 3-pointer and landed on a fallen Rasheed Sulaimon, who had lost his balance. Rusin made the free throw, but Duke pushed the ball and Hood was fouled on his drive to the hoop.

SportsDirect Inc. Preview: Vermont at Duke While Jabari Parker continues to generate the headlines, No. 6 Duke is far from a one-man team. The Blue Devils put their wide array of talent on display Sunday against visiting Vermont. The Catamounts likely will have their hands full with the Blue Devils after losing their last three games to Bryant, Providence and Wagner by a combined 51 points. Parker, a candidate to go first overall in next April's NBA Draft, leads the Blue Devils in scoring (22.4)

Providence 70, Vermont 49: LaDontae Henton had 18 points and nine rebounds as the host Friars used a dominant first half to top the Catamounts. Bryce Cotton also had 18 points and Kadeem Batts recorded 12 points and 10 boards for Providence (4-0), which won its 30th straight non-conference game at home. Kris Dunn made his season debut after missing the first three games with a shoulder injury and had eight assists and three steals off the bench. Luke Apfeld led Vermont (1-3)

STOWE, Vt. - The secret to happiness is perspective, and that's particularly true when skiing. For instance, should you be intimately familiar with the mighty mountains of the American West, East Coast skiing might seem tame, if not short, icy and gray. But if you're from Manhattan, and your usual peaks are the hills north of New York City, Vermont will seem like the Alps. "The blue runs here are like the black ones back home," said Manhattanite Neal Cooper, 39, while we balanced on skis amid Stowe Mountain Resort's snowy peaks and pines.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A man convicted of failing to register as a sex offender cannot be forced to undergo penile stimulation tests to determine how likely he is to commit future crimes, a federal appeals court in New York ruled on Thursday. The procedure, known as penile plethysmography, has been imposed in some sex crime cases as a condition of post-conviction release, in part to estimate the likelihood of recidivism. But some experts question its reliability. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals called it an "exceedingly invasive procedure" that was not justified by public safety, therapeutic benefits or deterrence in the case of David McLaurin, an Alabama man convicted in 2012.

Aug 27 (Reuters) - Entergy Corp said it will shut its Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant, becoming the latest casualty of low power prices and utilities preferring cheap natural gas to generate electricity. The 620-megawatt power station is not expected to produce power after its current fuel cycle and will be decommissioned in the fourth quarter of next year, the company said. "This was an agonizing decision and an extremely tough call for us," said Leo Denault, Entergy's chief executive officer.